Afghan President rejects prospect of interim govt
January 8 ,2021
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By: Anisa Shaheed
The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday, referring to the recent rumors about the establishment of an interim government as an o...
Pakistan urges Afghanistan to take action against terroris...
January 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan on Thursday urged neighboring Afghanistan to take action against terrorists after a Pakistani soldier was killed in firing fro...
An ‘orchard of bad apples’ weighs on new Afghan peace talk...
January 6 ,2021
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By: Kathy Gannon
Afghan negotiators are to resume talks with the Taliban on Tuesday aimed at finding an end to decades of relentless conflict even as ho...
Iran’s railway ambitions go beyond Afghanistan
January 5 ,2021
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By: Maysam Bizaer
The first railway between Iran and Afghanistan was launched in December 2020, linking the Iranian northeastern city of Khaf to Afghanis...
Bloodshed continues as Afghan peace talks resume
January 5 ,2021
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By: Jay Deshmukh
A string of assassinations has sowed fear and chaos across Afghanistan as a fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government an...
Target killings continue in Afghanistan as 11 killed withi...
January 5 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The target killings, mostly in the shape of deadly magnetic bombs, have been continuing to claim lives of Afghans as 11 people, with ma...
A big beautiful wall: Pakistan has fenced itself off from...
January 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Report
The tribesmen outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul huddle into their woollen shawls and wait. A few years ago, grumble Abdul Haq Bara...
New round of Afghan peace talks to begin
January 4 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A string of assassinations has sowed fear and chaos across Afghanistan as a fresh round of peace talks between the Afghan government an...
The Taliban is using bomber drones as a psychological weap...
January 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
With no way to shoot down the Taliban’s drones, Afghan security forces face a hidden but deadly psychological weapon today that i...
Taliban 'fully prepared' for next round of talks: spokesma...
January 1 ,2021
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By: Sharif Amiry
The second round of the peace negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban are set to begin on January 5 in...
Azerbaijan to open embassy in Afghanistan
January 1 ,2021
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By: Mohammad Haroon Alim
Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday, that Azerbaijan will establish an embassy in Afghanistan, following the approval...
Pakistan has fenced itself off from Afghanistan
December 31 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The tribesmen outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul huddle into their woollen shawls and wait. A few years ago, grumble Abdul Haq Bara...
Afghan troops, police abandon nearly 200 checkpoints to Ta...
December 31 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Afghan security forces (above) and the Taleban have clashed regularly in Kandahar province since Oct 2020
Afghan security personne...
Qatar to host next round of Afghan gov’t-Taliban talks: Of...
December 29 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The next round of negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government will be held in Qatar from next month, a top official said...
Violence lingers in Afghanistan as peace talks yet to deli...
December 28 ,2020
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By: Abdul Haleem and Chen Xin
The negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban group, which started in September in Doha, Qatar to find a peaceful solu...
Afghanistan bars local government spokesmen from speaking...
December 28 ,2020
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By: Sayed Salahuddin
The Afghan government confirmed on Saturday that it had barred provincial government spokesmen from sharing information with the media,...
Afghanistan-Pakistan all set to sign trilateral railway co...
December 28 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati has said Prime Minister Imran Khan will soon sign an agreement for a trilatera...
Dutch troops killed civilians in Afghanistan: Veteran
December 24 ,2020
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By: Abdullah Asiran
Dutch soldiers killed civilians in Afghanistan in 2017, an army veteran has claimed to local media.
Servie Holzken, a former Dutch sol...
Mullah Baradar: Taliban meets in Pakistan over peace talks
December 23 ,2020
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By: Sharif Amiry
The Taliban’s deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has said that all decisions about the peace process are being finalized in...
Azerbaijan to open embassy in Afghanistan in 2021
December 22 ,2020
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By: Seda Sevencan
Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib called on Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in the Azerbaijani capital of Bak...
The endgame in Afghanistan is near
December 21 ,2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, fifth from left, and his delegation d...
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